Name: Sarah Bock
Hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina
Current role: Miss Huang in Severance season 2 now on Apple TV+
Teen Vogue: If you could be the main character in any TV show or movie that’s not your own, who would you be and why?
Sarah Bock: After Sun, Lady Bird, and those coming of age movies. I would love to do that because I’ve never played a teenager who’s my age going through normal teenager stuff, so it’s like a weird dystopian experience which is fun [laughs]. Or I really want to do a musical movie, something like La La Land or Tick Tick Boom. Or if they ever bring a musical and make it into a movie adaption, I would love to do Next to Normal. That would be a dream.
Blunt. Reserved. Major superiority complex. That’s how Sarah Bock sums up her character Miss Huang, the newest — and youngest — hire at Lumon Industries in Severance season 2. When the trailer dropped a month ago, fans all wondered the same thing: Who is this new deputy manager, and why is she literally a child? Mark W., one of Lumon’s new employees, has the same question, to which Miss Huang gives an innocent yet matter-of-fact response in the trailer: “Because of when I was born.” Somehow, it managed to answer nothing and imply everything — a fitting addition to the unsettling, mysterious, and darkly comedic world of Severance.
As one of the highest-rated shows on Apple TV+ gears up for its much-anticipated comeback —episode 1 is out now — fans are bracing for answers. Realistically, what they’ll get are even more questions: about Lumon’s eerie labyrinth, what those cryptic MDR numbers really do, and, yes, that creepy hallway with the ominous red arrow. And just when you thought things couldn’t get weirder, enter Miss Huang: a child somehow wielding corporate power in a world where adults barely hold onto their sanity.
